Kent Chan

Mida is a dream therapist who sits on a wheelchair in the real life. However, she has the ability to access people’s dreams and solve their psychological problems. In addition, Mida is capable of changing and linking dreams by her singing in dreams. Mida encounters a high school girl, Sue who has been bothered by her predictable dreams.

Heat Waves uses pop culture to deconstruct our collective amalgamation of this idea called ‘the tropics’. It is an imagined place made up of vastly different real places that have in common popular fetishisation and, simultaneously, mass neglect in the face of climate catastrophe. One man’s paradise is another man’s existential threat.

Future Tropics pushes observations of tropical expansion (due to the climate emergency) to extreme ends, arriving upon the fictional scenarios of a future and global tropic

Colonialism and modernity, tropics and the arts. In 1955, Ho Kok Hoe, then president of the Singapore Art Society made a months-long journey to the UK, Europe and the US. An artist and architect of local repute, curatorial legend has it that he embarked on the journey with over 200 pieces of artworks by him and 6 other Singaporean artists. His search for an exhibition venue began only upon his arrival in London, which by some minor miracle culminated in the first exhibition of Singaporean art in Europe.

Mida is a dream therapist who sits on a wheelchair in the real life. However, she has the ability to access people’s dreams and solve their psychological problems. In addition, Mida is capable of changing and linking dreams by her singing in dreams. Mida encounters a high school girl, Sue who has been bothered by her predictable dreams.

Heat Waves uses pop culture to deconstruct our collective amalgamation of this idea called ‘the tropics’. It is an imagined place made up of vastly different real places that have in common popular fetishisation and, simultaneously, mass neglect in the face of climate catastrophe. One man’s paradise is another man’s existential threat.

Future Tropics pushes observations of tropical expansion (due to the climate emergency) to extreme ends, arriving upon the fictional scenarios of a future and global tropic

Colonialism and modernity, tropics and the arts. In 1955, Ho Kok Hoe, then president of the Singapore Art Society made a months-long journey to the UK, Europe and the US. An artist and architect of local repute, curatorial legend has it that he embarked on the journey with over 200 pieces of artworks by him and 6 other Singaporean artists. His search for an exhibition venue began only upon his arrival in London, which by some minor miracle culminated in the first exhibition of Singaporean art in Europe.